Thursday, April 18, 2013

US at the bottom of the list

"Roughly one in seven children within the United States currently lives in poverty. According to the overall metric, the US ranks 26 out of 29, behind Greece and just above Lithuania, Latvia and Romania. On the education metric, it comes in 27, while on the material well-being metric it comes in at 26. The report notes that the United States, which has the world's highest gross domestic product, has remained at the bottom of the list throughout the past decade."